WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.600 This is Hacker Public Radio episode 3,912 for Tuesday, the first of August 2023. 00:14.600 --> 00:20.600 Today's show is entitled, Emergency Show, Bill Tong and Rubeo's. 00:20.600 --> 00:25.320 It is hosted by Shane Shannon and is about four minutes long. 00:25.320 --> 00:27.960 It carries a clean flag. 00:27.960 --> 00:40.600 The summary is, Shane brings us a taste of South Africa with some local tea and jerky. 00:40.600 --> 00:45.720 You are listening to a show from 2018 that was posted to the Reserve Q. 00:45.720 --> 00:50.800 We are airing it now because we had free slots that were not filled. 00:50.800 --> 00:54.400 Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio. 00:54.440 --> 01:00.080 The project will stop if the listeners do not continue to contribute shows. 01:00.080 --> 01:07.760 Hacker Public Radio audience, this is Shane Shannon, speaking from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. 01:07.760 --> 01:13.880 And I think this will be an evergreen episode, number one because I don't have much to say. 01:13.880 --> 01:20.720 And what I say today won't change probably in a hundred years, oh, here we go. 01:20.720 --> 01:25.680 I'm trying to stick this episode in the emergency shows so that it can be used whenever. 01:25.680 --> 01:31.440 And because it will be an evergreen topic, it should suit just fine. 01:31.440 --> 01:38.640 So I come originally from South Africa and I was born to two English speakers in South Africa. 01:38.640 --> 01:42.760 But my parents knew Afrikaans and they knew some Afrikaans culture as well. 01:42.760 --> 01:48.840 So I'm going to talk about two foods that I think come from the Afrikaans culture. 01:48.840 --> 01:56.520 The first autocobode is a tea at Nervylti from South Africa, from some kind of red bush. 01:56.520 --> 02:02.360 And it's called Roybus, R-O-O-I-B-O-S. 02:02.360 --> 02:13.160 And it's a flavorful tea, but it's very light with opium glands. 02:13.160 --> 02:18.640 If I was going to compare to anything else, say it would have the likeness of something 02:18.640 --> 02:25.320 flavored with vanilla, when you're not overdoing it. 02:25.320 --> 02:32.000 Maybe the best word to describe Roybus is to call it mild. 02:32.000 --> 02:37.800 And here in Canada you can get the tea bags for Roybus, almost in any grocery store. 02:37.800 --> 02:40.120 I hope you can find it in the area you're in. 02:40.120 --> 02:46.800 If you use one something with ole caffeine in it, I believe this has no caffeine. 02:46.840 --> 02:53.800 Roybus or Roybus, very mild, you get still flavorful. 02:53.800 --> 03:00.960 And second South African thing that I want to talk about is a treat called 03:00.960 --> 03:05.360 Filton, B-I-L-T-O-N-G. 03:05.360 --> 03:11.680 So this is strips of meat that have been assaulted and spiced and then left to dry. 03:11.760 --> 03:20.120 So to very South African thing, they would do this when the weather was the hottest I think. 03:20.120 --> 03:30.800 And that's how the meat is preserved by drying and not by smoking or anything like that. 03:30.800 --> 03:38.800 So my father still attempts to make it, he dries it in a warm shed that he has. 03:38.800 --> 03:44.880 So I still get to build on even though I haven't been back to South Africa since I was five years old. 03:44.880 --> 03:50.520 It's kind of like a beef jerky except because of the variety of spices. 03:50.520 --> 04:01.120 I find it a bit more flavorful and I think it may even be a little bit tougher to chew. 04:01.120 --> 04:06.240 So that's it, two South African things, even though here I am living in Canada. 04:06.240 --> 04:10.960 These are the only parts of my South African heritage that I actually know about. 04:10.960 --> 04:19.760 Roy Busch T, R-O-O-I-B-O-S, and Bill Tongue, B-I-L-T-O-N-G. 04:19.760 --> 04:23.440 Okay, thank you, Hacker Public Radio audience. 04:23.440 --> 04:31.240 Why don't you tell me about some foods or teas or snacks or smoked meats from your culture? 04:31.240 --> 04:33.400 Do a show about it, goodbye for now. 04:36.400 --> 04:41.360 You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio.org. 04:41.360 --> 04:45.520 Today's show was contributed by a H-B-R-Lisnet like yourself, 04:45.520 --> 04:48.320 if you ever thought of recording podcasts, 04:48.320 --> 04:52.960 you click on our contribute link to find out how easy it means. 04:52.960 --> 04:58.400 Hosting for H-B-R has been kindly provided by an onsthost.com, 04:58.400 --> 05:01.600 the internet archive and our synced.net. 05:01.680 --> 05:06.480 On this otherwise stages, today's show is released on our Creative Commons, 05:06.480 --> 05:13.760 attribution for point-o international license.